How intelligent workforce management makes every day easier for retailers
Labor is a major expense for businesses; getting staff schedules right is crucial to maintaining profits. Unfortunately, mistakes in manual or spreadsheet staff scheduling are all too common and can be costly. Overstaffing blows your budget, while understaffing drives customers away. Scheduling errors compound these issues, leaving both staff and customers dissatisfied.
Let’s explore six key areas in which Epicor Scheduling+ helps you gain efficiencies, reduce errors, control costs, and provide better workforce management.
Epicor Scheduling+ takes the hassle out of staff scheduling. It makes things quicker, simpler, and more accurate. The easy-to-use tools help you assign, manage, and keep track of schedules and tasks, while its complete time clock features make daily processes a breeze for managers, employees, and payroll pros.
With Epicor Scheduling+, managers can easily create schedules that include roles, departments, and shifts using templates with drag-and-drop features. Being able to copy last week's schedule and make quick tweaks saves significant time while avoiding mistakes. Plus, integrating with Epicor's retail management systems and tapping into real-time and historical sales data takes the guesswork out of scheduling. This helps ensure you've always got the right team in place, keeping customers happy and avoiding those expensive overstaffing situations.
Both employees and managers can easily access the time clock from any web-enabled device or app, no extra hardware needed, with Scheduling+. Employees can check their schedules, clock in and out, update task statuses, request time off, and view messages from management right on their phones. You’ve got the power to set your own rules for hour-rounding, overtime, break time, clock-ins, clock-outs, and more, helping you control costs better.
The system is flexible, letting managers get alerts when things like missed shifts, late arrivals, or chronic overtime happens. This way, you can quickly fix issues, set clock-in locations, and create custom time-tracking rules. Plus, you can require job codes and clock-in/out photos to prevent buddy punching. This solution is designed to make your work easier—set it up in the way that’s best for your business.
With Epicor Scheduling+, you can easily assign one-time or recurring tasks to employees using online and printable task cards. This keeps your team on track during their shifts. Employees get task alerts when clocking in or out, so they always know what's going on. They can update task statuses anytime, track their progress online, and export tasks to PDF, CSV, or Excel for more flexibility and managers can use the exported task data for reporting.
Epicor Scheduling+ makes creating accurate, error-free timesheets a breeze, saving you a ton of time. You can automatically track overtime and paid time off. Check out the details of each employee’s scheduled shifts on their timesheets and compare scheduled payroll costs with actual costs. Before running payroll, you can require managers and employees to give timesheets the thumbs up. Your accounting staff will love how easy it is to export/import payroll data to major payroll systems.
Discover how Epicor Scheduling+ can help you manage your team more efficiently, minimize labor costs, and free up time to focus on serving customers while growing your business.
